I have built you an exalted house : temple building in the Bible in light of Mesopotamian and Northwest semitic writings

I have built you an exalted house : temple building in the Bible in light of Mesopotamian and Northwest semitic writings / Victor (Avigdor) Hurowitz.

This close synchronic analysis of Exodus 1-2 looks at how the pericope''s structure, language, focalization and management of information form its conception and judgement of its events and characters. A coherence of concerns is detectable in Exodus 1-2 with allusions to Genesis and the la...

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Main Author: Hurowitz, Victor
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: JSOT Press, ©1992.
Series:Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies.
Subjects:
Bible. > Kings, 1st.
Bible. > Kings, 1st
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN BUILDING ACCOUNTS FROM GUDEA TO HEROD: THE THEMATIC STRUCTURES OF SELECTED EXTRA-BIBLICAL AND BIBLICAL BUILDING ACCOUNTS; Chapter 1 BUILDING STORIES IN SUMERIAN AND OLD BABYLONIAN LITERATURE; 1. The Cylinder Inscriptions of Gudea of Lagash; 2. A Hymn to Enlil with a Prayer for Ur-Nammu, the Builder of Ekur; 3. Shulgi and Ninlil''s Boat (Šulgi R); 4. The Pseudepigraphic Inscription of Lugalannemundu; 5. Building Stories in Old Babylonian Royal Inscriptions: Samsuiluna B; Excursus: Chiasmus and Inclusio.
  • Chapter 2 BUILDING STORIES IN THE ASSYRIAN ROYAL INSCRIPTIONS1. The Annals of Tiglath-pileser I; 2. The Inscriptions of Sargon II of Assyria; 3. The Inscriptions of Sennacherib; 4. The Inscriptions of Esarhaddon; 5. The Inscriptions of Assurbanipal; Chapter 3 BUILDING STORIES IN THE NEO-BABYLONIAN ROYAL INSCRIPTIONS; 1. The Inscriptions of Nabopolassar; 2. The Inscriptions of Nebuchadnezzar II; 3. The Inscriptions of Nabonidus; Chapter 4 DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE BABYLONIAN AND ASSYRIAN BUILDING ACCOUNTS; Chapter 5 BUILDING STORIES IN MESOPOTAMIAN MYTHOLOGY.
  • Chapter 6 BUILDING STORIES IN NORTHWEST SEMITIC WRITINGS1. Building Inscriptions; 2. The Baal Epic; Chapter 7 BUILDING STORIES IN THE BIBLE AND POST-BIBLICAL LITERATURE; 1. The Building of the First Temple; 2. The Priestly Account of Building the Tabernacle; 3. The Rebuilding of the Jerusalem Temple (Ezra 1-6); 4. The Repairing of the Walls of Jerusalem (The Memoirs of Nehemiah); 5. Herod''s Rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem (Josephus); Conclusions to the First Part.
  • Part II: THE ACCOUNT OF BUILDING THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM (1 KINGS 5.15-9.25) IN LIGHT OF MESOPOTAMIAN AND NORTHWEST SEMITIC WRITINGSIntroduction to the Second Part; Chapter 8 THE DECISION TO BUILD (1 KINGS 5.15-19); 1. The History of the Temple; 2. Building Temples upon Divine Command; 3. Conclusions and Implications for the Biblical Building Accounts; Excursus: tabnît; Chapter 9 THE ACQUISITION OF BUILDING MATERIALS: THE LITERARY AND MATERIAL CULTURE BACKGROUND OF 1 KINGS 5.15-26; 1. A Literary and Form-Critical Analysis; 2. Analysis of the Content.
  • 3. The Acquisition of Building Materials according to Extra-Biblical Building Accounts4. Conclusions; Chapter 10 THE DESCRIPTIONS OF THE TEMPLE AND ITS FURNISHINGS (1 KINGS 6-7); 1. The Date Formulae; 2. Statement that the Temple was Built in an Appropriate Manner; 3. The Use of Sentences Containing the Words bānâ, ''āśâ (mělā'' kâ) + klh, šlm, tmm (mělā'' kâ); 4. Length and Brevity in the Descriptions of the Buildings; 5. The Nature of the Biblical Descriptions of Buildings as Compared with the Mesopotamian Descriptions.

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